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<treatmentCitation id="0B1F3B282A51C337CB0C82DAFB7A9ACE" author="Gray" authority="Gray 1821" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1821" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" journal="London Med. Repos." kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" page="303" pageNumber="907" phylum="Chordata" rank="family" title="Spalacidae" volume="15" year="1821">
<taxonomicName id="5F5AA5A3DF983A3ED5B33C1DA4F11C41" ID-CoL="GF5" authority="Gray 1821" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1821" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="907" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">
Spalacidae
<bibRefCitation id="A25EF401D3886C947D795E3AB57B6660" author="Gray, J. E." refId="ref127912" refString="Gray, J. E. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. London Medical Repository, 15 (1): 296 - 310." year="1821">Gray 1821</bibRefCitation>
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,
<bibCitation id="6997DC785CD038A11B200D047D99FD33" author="Gray" journal="London Med. Repos." pageNumber="907" pagination="303" title="Spalacidae" volume="15" year="1821">London Med. Repos., 15: 303</bibCitation>
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.
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<emphasis id="C66FE1058A89B18DC41AAF38699CE179" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="907">Genera:</emphasis>
6 genera with 36 species in 4 subfamilies:
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Subfamily
<taxonomicName id="F53AD3A629371C59B17AF8FD7D169C9F" authority="Lilljeborg 1866" authorityName="Lilljeborg" authorityYear="1866" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="907" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Myospalacinae">Myospalacinae Lilljeborg 1866</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
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Genus
<taxonomicName id="AAEB006FAD7E8628A49B3A8A8186A055" authority="G. M. Allen 1938" authorityName="G. M. Allen" authorityYear="1938" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Eospalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="907" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="E77A7859979520594142AF15E6540FF7" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Eospalax</emphasis>
G. M.
<bibRefCitation id="4EBCF14EEB9125A828C352B3EEB985BE" author="Allen, G. M." refId="ref4824" refString="Allen, G. M. 1938 - 1940. The mammals of China and Mongolia [Natural History of Central Asia (W. Granger, ed.)]. Central Asiatic Expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 11: pt. 1: 1 - 620 [1938]; pt. 2: 621 - 1350 [1940]." year="1938">Allen 1938</bibRefCitation>
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(3 species)
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Genus
<taxonomicName id="E9DE248F96F7F3E897DC2448E9BB93EA" authority="Laxmann 1769" authorityName="Laxmann" authorityYear="1769" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Myospalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="907" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2137570380658B836B685BD631287488" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Myospalax</emphasis>
Laxmann 1769
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(3 species)
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Subfamily
<taxonomicName id="9291DB5C2877FF633DF208DD97B9C8C9" authority="Winge 1887" authorityName="Winge" authorityYear="1887" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="907" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Rhizomyinae">
Rhizomyinae
<bibRefCitation id="8F71FEBCB4AB7CD88FAF8CBB65A61731" author="Winge, H." refId="ref391444" refString="Winge, H. 1887. Jordfunde og nulevende Gnavere (Rodentia) fra Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes, Brasilien: Med udsigt over gnavernes indbyrdes slagtskab. E Museo Lundii, 1 (3): 1 - 178." year="1887">Winge 1887</bibRefCitation>
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<paragraph id="89EA75084CFF9DE247DF4BE7F3F01F00" pageNumber="907">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="F289B37FD761C85D6553D3163190E6A0" authority="Thomas 1915" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1915" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Cannomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="907" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="3D3A6E3E181695570B8D985B731930A8" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Cannomys</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF2DD965D35437B6136646A5A63D7BAC" author="Thomas, O." refId="ref353986" refString="Thomas, O. 1915. List of mammals (exclusive of Ungulata) collected on the Upper Congo by Dr. Christy for the Congo Museum, Tervueren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 16: 465 - 481." year="1915">Thomas 1915</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(1 species)
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="9DE877B2DC13B070AB64397C25C95E4C" pageNumber="907">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="B4F377D0619068A99F120898126B92F4" authority="Gray 1831" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1831" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Rhizomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="907" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="A3CC5A1390C4D4F35F433972CB78FE50" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Rhizomys</emphasis>
Gray 1831
</taxonomicName>
(3 species)
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<paragraph id="E4E67CAB5C49D421D0381EE57EC6B3EC" pageNumber="907">
Subfamily
<taxonomicName id="27E45AF0EA28BD6D1FCF4D306E4C7618" authority="Gray 1821" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1821" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="907" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Spalacinae">
Spalacinae
<bibRefCitation id="7DFD7DBD23318800467182BCDD163769" author="Gray, J. E." refId="ref127912" refString="Gray, J. E. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. London Medical Repository, 15 (1): 296 - 310." year="1821">Gray 1821</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph id="0FD02BEBDF878F20C1E5606BB150F11E" pageNumber="907">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="D81E1343AA94C444ABDC65146A1CCDDC" authority="Guldenstaedt 1770" authorityName="Guldenstaedt" authorityYear="1770" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Spalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="907" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="8A387A9DC4B1F66FB02A1F49BE2E41E0" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Spalax</emphasis>
Guldenstaedt 1770
</taxonomicName>
(13 species)
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<paragraph id="CA3E3C8B1F7653A39DDFEF417DDF650C" pageNumber="907">
Subfamily
<taxonomicName id="F5D340464F6A283D941073ABD7B6AF8F" authority="Miller and Gidley 1918" authorityName="Miller and Gidley" authorityYear="1918" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="907" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Tachyoryctinae">
Tachyoryctinae
<bibRefCitation id="BEAC3937AB9F750B2534F9EA42E079A8" author="Miller, G. S., Jr. &amp; J. W. Gidley" refId="ref242298" refString="Miller, G. S., Jr., and J. W. Gidley. 1918. Synopsis of the supergeneric groups of rodents. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 8: 431 - 448." year="1918">Miller and Gidley 1918</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="46C9B60719CFD8E6DF40ABEEFDEA469F" pageNumber="907">
Genus
<taxonomicName id="2CDEE551AB025FF145049B95BBFCF424" authority="Rüppell 1835" authorityName="Rüppell" authorityYear="1835" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Tachyoryctes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" pageNumber="907" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="7D2B156061EBFC11589A2D3C42D1B8E5" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Tachyoryctes</emphasis>
Rüppell 1835
</taxonomicName>
(13 species)
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C973653B2B8FDD8DB2747C2C477819BD" pageNumber="907" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="5A7178DC85C732BFCB2FC5FFD1260BB6" pageNumber="907">
<emphasis id="DFD19D85C85B6DA08F04B4602DD66EF7" inLineHeading="true" pageNumber="907">Discussion:</emphasis>
<paragraph id="51E4E71B8934F7AF811C49948E8B54DB" pageNumber="907">
This family contains species of fossorial and subterranean muroids arranged in the
<taxonomicName id="FB7F75E0755C048727944FC6FD02D628" authorityName="Lilljeborg" authorityYear="1866" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Myospalacinae">Myospalacinae</taxonomicName>
(zokors,
<taxonomicName id="4CD4CF79503125A5660E302B563E7FC6" authorityName="G. M. Allen" authorityYear="1938" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Eospalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="1646A3721DBCA49CAC5237A74641B04F" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Eospalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="9F2311C70C5D7DCC4C91C8357170F9C1" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Myospalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
),
<taxonomicName id="60A060B05DD02287C319C0F0C2F695CE" authorityName="Winge" authorityYear="1887" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Rhizomyinae">Rhizomyinae</taxonomicName>
(bamboo rats,
<taxonomicName id="B1171EAE3CFF8117EC92CDAC55AA5E3E" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1915" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Cannomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="40183102DC82F2614AEF6802B89693E5" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Cannomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="1351728798E2003BEA31302DF898B44F" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1831" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Rhizomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="840362B45DB574CAFB054902EE854FFE" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Rhizomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
),
<taxonomicName id="78A54ED4827BBC253AF76F694E52BBD7" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1821" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Spalacinae">Spalacinae</taxonomicName>
(blind mole rats,
<taxonomicName id="22CF0A1C6BAC7EBBDA735C73D744B526" authorityName="Guldenstaedt" authorityYear="1770" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Spalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="A76BB3F130CCF40E2424948AE192E96C" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Spalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), and
<taxonomicName id="EEEC38D3B716E9C9220C9D0056192ADE" authorityName="Miller and Gidley" authorityYear="1918" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Tachyoryctinae">Tachyoryctinae</taxonomicName>
(African mole rats,
<taxonomicName id="BC68281819CB90D0136AC6C9864A8A18" authorityName="Rüppell" authorityYear="1835" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Tachyoryctes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="FB2DD87C183B6C54457356BCD4C2B1B4" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Tachyoryctes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). All extant species are characterized by extreme morphological, physiological, and behavioral specializations associated with subterranean life in tubular burrows (
<bibRefCitation id="A5187A09DCF5E675E52CEF5B83D031D1" author="Gambaryan, P. P." refId="ref112069" refString="Gambaryan, P. P. 1960. [Adaptive specializations of the organs of movement of burrowing mammals.] Erevan: Akademy Nauk Armenia, 198 pp. (in Russian)." year="1960">Gambaryan, 1960</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="8E462A8EC893B49DBEFCE324954BA40B" author="Gambaryan, P. P. &amp; J. - P. Gasc" refId="ref112104" refString="Gambaryan, P. P., and J. - P. Gasc. 1993. Adaptive properties of the musculoskeletal system in the mole-rat Myospalax myospalax (Mammalia, Rodentia), cinefluorographical, anatomical, and biomechanical analyses of burrowing. Zoologische Jahrbuchen fur Anatomie, 123: 363 - 401." year="1993">Gambaryan and Gasc, 1993</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="A346E8E06823788DE366952CB245D89F" author="Nevo, E. &amp; E. Ivanitskaya &amp; A. Beiles" refId="ref259082" refString="Nevo, E., E. Ivanitskaya, and A. Beiles. 2001. Adaptive radiation of blind subterranean mole rats: Naming and revisiting the four sibling species of the Spalax ehrenbergi superspecies in Israel: Spalax galili (2 n = 52), S. golani (2 n = 54), S. carmeli (2 n = 58) and S. judaei (2 n = 60). Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, 195 pp." year="2001">Nevo et al., 2001</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="6844169A72AE925DDFAAE8F2052492C7" author="Tullberg, T." refId="ref360768" refString="Tullberg, T. 1899. Uber das system der Nagetiere. Eine phylogenetische studie. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarium Upsaliensis, Ser. 3, 18: 1 - 514." year="1899">Tullberg, 1899</bibRefCitation>
). Although each subfamily can be readily diagnosed by unique traits (
<bibRefCitation id="51478FF0B0660244120601EEDC1EB4BE" author="Carleton, M. D. &amp; G. G. Musser" refId="ref52182" refString="Carleton, M. D., and G. G. Musser. 1984. Muroid rodents. Pp. 289 - 379, in Orders and families of Recent mammals of the world (S. Anderson and J. K. Jones, Jr., eds.). John Wiley and Sons, New York, 686 pp." year="1984">Carleton and Musser, 1984</bibRefCitation>
), and although molar occlusal patterns among living species are dissimilar, all share a comparable cranial and postcranial skeletal architecture integrated with a myological system that characterizes highly specialized fossorial rodents. Such a phenotypic resemblance was interpreted as phylogenetic relationship by
<bibRefCitation id="2A308F7384F22005E627D7714631EB65" author="Tullberg, T." refId="ref360768" refString="Tullberg, T. 1899. Uber das system der Nagetiere. Eine phylogenetische studie. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarium Upsaliensis, Ser. 3, 18: 1 - 514." year="1899">Tullberg (1899)</bibRefCitation>
, who placed
<taxonomicName id="CCDF266FD6FAAE6FA079B9CF8686F3CC" authorityName="Guldenstaedt" authorityYear="1770" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Spalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="DBA547E556E8FF58300CA370BC92EF4B" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Spalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="7F9F225DBAA3E6B1AE376A717EB21AB7" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1831" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Rhizomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="988977872F34A2D0869C7435891AA2BF" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Rhizomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="81D7E3D7245DFEF0920C43F6C8D03049" authorityName="Rüppell" authorityYear="1835" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Tachyoryctes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2216DF92661177F86E36661E7D747F1E" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Tachyoryctes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName id="FB8EF789695001D156146BEAB840AE92" authorityName="Laxmann" authorityYear="1769" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Myospalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="9065548A883C4CBAC045CD77D2D4E3B6" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Myospalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="FDBFE6F07E87F2C2DD2CFB4CC4D3074B" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1821" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Spalacidae</taxonomicName>
, an ordering also used by
<bibRefCitation id="227BB835D869704C73830A6987DA94A8" author="Ognev, S. I." refId="ref264461" refString="Ognev, S. I. 1947. Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Gryzuny (prodolzhenie). (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii) [Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Rodents (continued). (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia)]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 5: 1 - 809 (in Russian)." year="1947">Ognev (1947</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="21BEF743F87C418952625AB2588FF6FE" author="Ognev, S. I." refId="ref264850" refString="Ognev, S. I. 1963 a. Mammals of the USSR and adjacent countries: Rodents (continued). (Mammals of eastern Europe and northern Asia) [A translation of S. I. Ognev, 1947, Zveri SSSR i prilezhashchikh stran: Gryzuny (prodolzhenie). (Zveri vostochnoi Evropy i severnoi Azii)]. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 5: 1 - 662." year="1963">
1963
<emphasis id="A1E641D9921B9C3259CE8C9DABA18E7D" italics="true" pageNumber="907">a</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
; he did not discuss
<taxonomicName id="C086EDCE3DBECFB8565DECF2DBE92591" authorityName="Rüppell" authorityYear="1835" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Tachyoryctes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="1E697D7D84BEA18BB883BA98A9828FCA" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Tachyoryctes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="A441BFCF64FFB563F2436D234F39C129" pageNumber="907">
Most other classificatory arrangements, implicitly or explicitly, reflect the view that the shared fossorial adaptations indicate evolutionary convergence, not descent from a common ancestor, and have variously combined the genera (also see
<bibRefCitation id="48339727E82397B5647475C92C63B400" author="Topachevskii, V. A." refId="ref358088" refString="Topachevskii, V. A. 1969. Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, Tom 3, vyp. 3. Slepyshovye (Spalacidae) [Fauna of the USSR: Mammals. Mole rats, Spalacidae]. Nauka Publishers, Leningrad Section, Leningrad, 248 pp." year="1969">Topachevskii, 1969</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="01F80BE7E40F57C7D7A83E25DDBEB069" author="Topachevskii, V. A." refId="ref358137" refString="Topachevskii, V. A. 1976. Fauna of the USSR: Mammals. vol. 3, pt. 3, mole rats, Spalacidae [a translation of V. A. Topachevskii, 1969, Fauna SSSR, Mlekopitayushchie, Tom 3, vyp. 3. Slepyshovye (Spalacidae)]. Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C., 308 pp." year="1976">1976</bibRefCitation>
): e.g.,
<taxonomicName id="E2EFD456CFFD375968900ED7E5D58E6E" authority="(Myospalacinae)" baseAuthorityName="Myospalacinae" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Myospalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="C54446001BD43B3C3808E94BB5A3A272" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Myospalax</emphasis>
(Myospalacinae)
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="A12E772DDCC85DEB4B274A5BD8E14DE7" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1896" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Muridae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="E9380A61554EE7C218DC66164D1BEB9C" authorityName="Guldenstaedt" authorityYear="1770" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Spalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="81D2C8C2B142D9AF817514DA01620978" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Spalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="0C584499AF7060FAF514D7348F0F39AA" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1831" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Rhizomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2024BC3865849559B26B421E74E081E6" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Rhizomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="D43CACF53F757B1C6DB1F367247F043C" authority="(Alston, 1876)" baseAuthorityName="Alston" baseAuthorityYear="1876" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">
Spalacidae (
<bibRefCitation id="94C906EC932882E1F3C23F08B466B1D3" author="Alston, E. R." refId="ref6239" refString="Alston, E. R. 1876. On the classification of the order Glires. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1876: 61 - 98." year="1876">Alston, 1876</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="46791E6BCF743809CAE03B49F9F76874" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1831" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Rhizomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="1678C12D3E52ABC1886756DBF0BF9428" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Rhizomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="3C3E532EE2E2CD0C8D8F5BDB600E76AD" authority="(Rhizomyinae)" baseAuthorityName="Rhizomyinae" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Tachyoryctes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="3EF34B1DB86AB8A9E185DE6C32F36B7B" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Tachyoryctes</emphasis>
(Rhizomyinae)
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="09E1A18E56C62E619663B2E19B36B3C8" authority="(Spalacinae)" baseAuthorityName="Spalacinae" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Spalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="D441C1A16FB6C5967B77CE5C2B037C79" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Spalax</emphasis>
(Spalacinae)
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="A9FC99B953F58A1B5AC6DCC917A9847A" baseAuthorityName="Alston" baseAuthorityYear="1876" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Spalacidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="B6B7DF30B8F88479DCCF9DEA7C196EE9" authority="(Myospalacinae)" baseAuthorityName="Myospalacinae" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Myospalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="C652CF3DBABD60691CC2A40A4837DEC6" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Myospalax</emphasis>
(Myospalacinae)
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="4D93BAAD2822FF0B397D276925F3E776" authority="(Thomas, 1896)" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1896" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">
Muridae (
<bibRefCitation id="A90B208F0DC722FAB69DDC3CC018658D" author="Thomas, O." refId="ref352089" refString="Thomas, O. 1896 [1897]. On the genera of rodents: An attempt to bring up to date the current arrangement of the order. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1896: 1012 - 1028." year="1896">Thomas, 1896</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="63F96E043E6600F62E30A0BD4519D38D" authority="(Rhizomyinae)" baseAuthorityName="Rhizomyinae" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Rhizomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="CEAF22A4682FBB6B37120914BCB405A4" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Rhizomys</emphasis>
(Rhizomyinae)
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="08922E6AD38D2F85F452971C245FA392" authority="(Tachyoryctinae)" baseAuthorityName="Tachyoryctinae" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Tachyoryctes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="4C5EA2F507C0261D757D5BA14ECD649E" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Tachyoryctes</emphasis>
(Tachyoryctinae)
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="783894A388BCD39F39F8217C131DB133" class="Mammalia" family="Rhizomyidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Rhizomyidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="FFD56E959D4F305CB2B5B1508B7A47E5" authority="(Myospalacinae)" baseAuthorityName="Myospalacinae" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Myospalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="5739FA8169AFE3AF55F84ECD7803569C" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Myospalax</emphasis>
(Myospalacinae)
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="E9EEC269AB3DD254ADE0EC67EAA2A608" authority="(Spalacinae)" baseAuthorityName="Spalacinae" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Spalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="AB37671B4A8F80F3E16556BD3F774EEA" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Spalax</emphasis>
(Spalacinae)
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="1D98E4425A3EDDD5F623D3C21F12AB44" authority="(Miller and Gidley, 1918)" baseAuthorityName="Miller and Gidley" baseAuthorityYear="1918" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">
Spalacidae (
<bibRefCitation id="A9DF5BAF18E01C83C6091ED253F7819A" author="Miller, G. S., Jr. &amp; J. W. Gidley" refId="ref242298" refString="Miller, G. S., Jr., and J. W. Gidley. 1918. Synopsis of the supergeneric groups of rodents. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 8: 431 - 448." year="1918">Miller and Gidley, 1918</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="D720C8C9FC35998945B25B2D009E975F" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Spalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="0414F20D73455119D1F9BB3273D7F52E" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Spalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="2F6FAC3E2DC900C3FC1E7E3C1B569BE8" baseAuthorityName="Miller and Gidley" baseAuthorityYear="1918" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Spalacidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="6D29CE059C8C7A1FCF337C3403AF1651" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Rhizomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="42488D1FEF55A5B9FBDAFA94A7054E44" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Rhizomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="F6C3235A366FFF9BCBBDD4D0304D1F5F" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1915" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Cannomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="3A4215625DDEABC3983B9ECD93F17D70" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Cannomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="6A8FA66860E65B2C082DF961D8D07148" class="Mammalia" family="Rhizomyidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Rhizomyidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="9B66298D1D29427761B9C42490DF174D" authority="(Tachyoryctinae)" baseAuthorityName="Tachyoryctinae" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Tachyoryctes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="5F58E79BCBE8946F2757C47B6578FA76" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Tachyoryctes</emphasis>
(Tachyoryctinae)
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="5C6CCFCB04F03E863ADC3195E2D3BA03" authority="(Myospalacinae)" baseAuthorityName="Myospalacinae" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Myospalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="93DF8589F8F1D660FA075C39AB3A527D" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Myospalax</emphasis>
(Myospalacinae)
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="A5409061CEE2B7CB81C105C2EED9D636" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1896" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Muridae</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="C0722B02B4704DBB6A7157191646FA3D" author="Ellerman, J. R." refId="ref92817" refString="Ellerman, J. R. 1940. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. 1. Rodents other than Muridae. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 689 pp." year="1940">Ellerman, 1940</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="DEBE2AFBE6D901B2B9C3CB67463B77A0" author="Ellerman, J. R." refId="ref92857" refString="Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp." year="1941">1941</bibRefCitation>
);
<emphasis id="485AC65D60C3E06017E09D18A7B9AAC4" italics="true" pageNumber="907">
<taxonomicName id="18AE06B8E4E56923C8775C79164C4FBD" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Rhizomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Rhizomys</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="384771D244AAB2FDF5DD141099F07D40" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1915" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Cannomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Cannomys</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
in
<taxonomicName id="73B2DC0857B5248326B68C2D82557208" class="Mammalia" family="Rhizomyidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Rhizomyidae</taxonomicName>
, Myospalacinae and Spalacinae in
<taxonomicName id="7377C86A0B2102DEFF4CE33114915A77" authority="(G. M. Allen, 1940)" baseAuthorityName="G. M. Allen" baseAuthorityYear="1940" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Spalacidae (G. M. Allen, 1940)</taxonomicName>
;
<taxonomicName id="CE44CB4050275C144457740E04E6D655" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Spalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="BBB9301FE8118C8D2312368709324595" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Spalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="287FB30B3D3795E82B7FE95587872A00" baseAuthorityName="G. M. Allen" baseAuthorityYear="1940" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Spalacidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="DC6831F1F01B2784A9247D26E0C97585" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Rhizomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="9F0862E19367FFD80F6F8F3A0CFF3B0D" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Rhizomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="E640C5E97F9B704884098F0F5E5CD3FD" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1915" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Cannomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="9725F1EA425C6725FE53C5D883837082" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Cannomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="369B3E64A24569F7983EE7A43C7CBFEB" class="Mammalia" family="Rhizomyidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Rhizomyidae</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="F44EB95306A8EA55B0EA2D1527D7E820" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Myospalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="1739A2440323306E5565377528D59AC1" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Myospalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a tribe or subfamily in
<taxonomicName id="6DA593E1545390B2EBC884A3CC19AF20" authorityName="Fischer" authorityYear="1817" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Cricetidae</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="C65D76888109C231D645527B8FE85078" author="Pavlinov, I. Ya &amp; E. L. Yakhontov &amp; A. K. Agadzhanyan" refId="ref278176" refString="Pavlinov, I. Ya, E. L. Yakhontov, and A. K. Agadzhanyan. 1995 a. [Mammals of Eurasia. I. Rodentia. Taxonomic and geographic guide.] Archives of the Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, 32: 289 pp. (in Russian)." year="1995">
Pavlinov et al., 1995
<emphasis id="D720C95F34D7F3BC3253072F4CBEC058" italics="true" pageNumber="907">a</emphasis>
</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="384257F671980100294E077B047C4FC4" author="Simpson, G. G." refId="ref328876" refString="Simpson, G. G. 1945. The principles of classification and a classification of mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 85: 1 - 350." year="1945">Simpson, 1945</bibRefCitation>
);
<taxonomicName id="A078F963FC0C1A57D13B8F05F90EAF02" authorityName="Lilljeborg" authorityYear="1866" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Myospalacinae">Myospalacinae</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="0B9C713794AAC3FD6D5C7F70163F3F63" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1821" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Spalacinae">Spalacinae</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="721FF50F0580782FED9B64339FAE2AA2" authorityName="Fischer" authorityYear="1817" class="Mammalia" family="Cricetidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Cricetidae</taxonomicName>
, Rhizomyinae and Tachyoryctinae in
<taxonomicName id="EA2FF11B855344628CC9751F9D1C4994" authority="(Chaline et al., 1977)" baseAuthorityName="Chaline" baseAuthorityYear="1977" class="Mammalia" family="Rhizomyidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">
Rhizomyidae (
<bibRefCitation id="825E1AC11F2DE64ECE0F3CDF935C74F2" author="Chaline, J. &amp; P. Mein &amp; F. Petter" refId="ref57068" refString="Chaline, J., P. Mein, and F. Petter. 1977. Les grandes lignes d'une classification evolutive des Muroidea. Mammalia, 41: 245 - 252." year="1977">Chaline et al., 1977</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
; Spalacines and Rhizomyines in
<taxonomicName id="7CEEC266ACB87FCAA39A502FB88FB450" baseAuthorityName="G. M. Allen" baseAuthorityYear="1940" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Spalacidae</taxonomicName>
of Theridomyoidea (
<bibRefCitation id="708BEE1A2CDBCF23F4EE72D0AEE1AF15" author="Schaub, S." refId="ref319004" refString="Schaub, S. 1958. Simplicidentata (Rodentia), pp. 659 - 818, in Traite de Paleontologie, VI (2) (J. Piveteav, ed.). Masson, Paris, 957 pp." year="1958">Schaub, 1958</bibRefCitation>
);
<taxonomicName id="E7C139BAB641A89F87BD24FD30272D36" baseAuthorityName="G. M. Allen" baseAuthorityYear="1940" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Spalacidae</taxonomicName>
and Myospalacidae in Muroidea,
<taxonomicName id="DF830BEE10DB2240BEA3696DE196AEDC" class="Mammalia" family="Rhizomyidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Rhizomyidae</taxonomicName>
in Theridomyoidea (Reig, 1980);
<taxonomicName id="A816C42DF319269BCFB8CD6B5CFF6E91" authorityName="Gray" authorityYear="1821" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Spalacinae">Spalacinae</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName id="3F3D057B767C971C8E1FAD19ECFFE953" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Spalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B90071A059393CDDB2088166D2C142A9" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Spalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
),
<taxonomicName id="FCF02FC42CD5BABEE995C1D90EEA1A85" authorityName="Winge" authorityYear="1887" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Rhizomyinae">Rhizomyinae</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName id="A58F0C962F3AF966ACF47E9088C04A96" authorityName="Thomas" authorityYear="1915" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Cannomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="49AAFE2128A3CC1D1E0C3C6F2930ED88" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Cannomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="463FE48EA8D059C05E0B1E47164856CD" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Rhizomys" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="279241EB356FB174F6FA87B2F495EE85" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Rhizomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="9B3DA220B3431A040F90DAF849F79AC9" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Tachyoryctes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="847162762E21DAE9FF451195D2E8DE46" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Tachyoryctes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), and
<taxonomicName id="E1B94DFE9C6E8D671770839A451525F9" authorityName="Lilljeborg" authorityYear="1866" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Myospalacinae">Myospalacinae</taxonomicName>
(
<taxonomicName id="36C8BF1964BAABA17F6F45FEE88DF277" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Myospalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="A5EA683D97FE4C1DDDBAABB2C8603779" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Myospalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) in
<taxonomicName id="ED3651B4FD29EBE62F77D7D19FE6E34A" baseAuthorityName="Thomas" baseAuthorityYear="1896" class="Mammalia" family="Muridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="family">Muridae</taxonomicName>
(
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;
<bibRefCitation id="5CB65649F623A36BA3881758B590C2AF" author="McKenna, M. C. &amp; S. K. Bell" refId="ref233772" refString="McKenna, M. C., and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of mammals above the species level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp." year="1997">McKenna and Bell, 1997</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="94A07AAAF4E5849EFB65BF0222F2B2BE" author="Musser, G. G. &amp; M. D. Carleton" refId="ref252333" refString="Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 1993. Family Muridae. Pp. 501 - 755, in: Mammal species of the world, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D. C., xviii + 1206 pp." year="1993">Musser and Carleton, 1993</bibRefCitation>
). These compilations, which recognize three or four separate subfamilies and two or three families, imply independent origin of each, a pattern that echos Ellerman’s (1940:638) pronouncement, &quot;I do not think that there is much doubt that the grouping together of
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<emphasis id="C1B413A5ADF23A43AB72BC209DD7B047" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Spalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="D2326791E9E6B4F1C52639DDB705EC58" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Myospalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="08725E57A0E25992841909ADAD1BE6CC" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Tachyoryctes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="50F768FB04AACC6617042FDD487344B7" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Rhizomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a very unnatural arrangement,&quot; and opinions of some fossil rodent specialists: &quot;
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and
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originate separately from different muroids&quot; (
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="F8DBABDECFAD57568FC092D14A697A07" pageNumber="907">
Much doubt, nonetheless, is supplied by recent studies in which the cladistic union of
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<emphasis id="E1156749DA6A1C0D5E90F959D6864BDE" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Spalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="D6039D7ADBB3BC14E0558716309EC4CF" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Rhizomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is supported by the cephalic arterial pattern (
<bibRefCitation id="D4CA703EAA9D604552D581D868CD7912" author="Bugge, J." refId="ref45960" refString="Bugge, J. 1971 a. The cephalic arterial system in mole-rats (Spalacidae) bamboo-rats (Rhizomyidae), jumping mice and jerboas (Dipodoidea) and dormice (Gliroidea) with special reference to the systematic classification of rodents. Acta Anatomica, 79: 165 - 180." year="1971">
Bugge, 1971
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<emphasis id="9173D3259F6736E95905387CF3852084" italics="true" pageNumber="907">a</emphasis>
, 1985
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) and by multiple gene-sequence analyses (nuclear
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,
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, and
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;
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and vWF,
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Michaux et al., 2001
<emphasis id="A5DCBA8D118C0350B025C73CDA748DB1" italics="true" pageNumber="907">b</emphasis>
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; nuclear
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,
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). Further support for uniting
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<emphasis id="1179B4A195E616528938EF22B54DE66B" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Spalax</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="807256C546779FA4DE4D42A62657A846" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Myospalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="55528F39DD79C07617299DC7561786C2" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Rhizomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
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<emphasis id="676B953941C166E0B3B4CCF8E065EBEF" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Tachyoryctes</emphasis>
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as a basal clade relative to other muroids stems from other sequence analyses with wider taxon sampling (
<bibRefCitation id="10D482E54DE7ECC6AFA436D03C33969A" author="Jansa, S. &amp; M. Weksler" refId="ref172324" refString="Jansa, S., and M. Weksler. 2004. Phylogeny of muroid rodents: Relationships within and among major lineages as determined by IRBP gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 31 (1): 256 - 276." year="2004">Jansa and Weksler, 2004</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="4B8931B9AB3F4B4FF2342F750DC8E5E0" author="Norris, R. W. &amp; K. Zhou &amp; C. Zhou &amp; G. Yang &amp; C. W. Kilpatrick &amp; R. L. Honeycutt" refId="ref262284" refString="Norris, R. W., K. Zhou, C. Zhou, G. Yang, C. W. Kilpatrick, and R. L. Honeycutt. 2004. The phylogenetic position of the zokors (Myospalacinae) and comments on the families of muroids (Rodentia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 31: 972 - 978." year="2004">Norris et al., 2004</bibRefCitation>
). These molecular data collectively point to zokors, bamboo rats, blind mole rats, and African mole rats as a monophyletic radiation that is sister-group to all other muroid family-group taxa so far investigated, inferring an early divergence, possibly one of the earliest, from a middle or late Oligocene ancestral stock.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="06EE8D50E6ADC56504A42D1EDBE89C64" pageNumber="907">
Morphology of fossil molars attributed to spalacines and rhizomyines suggests their common origin. In describing late Miocene African species of
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<emphasis id="3ECEAD7B72F8934A198DE0F4038B7CD4" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Nakalimys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="7CC6B8126C1B5FB8FFDCB763B7A328EB" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Harasibomys</emphasis>
,
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Mein et al. (2000
<emphasis id="C007D799F619C6E6AA530580C2CBA444" italics="true" pageNumber="907">a</emphasis>
:385)
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allocated them to &quot;Family
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… or
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,&quot; and noted that the early Miocene Spalacine
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<emphasis id="2F6A40DE11DD45C45D1386608CBDEF93" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Debruijnia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
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(at about 20 million years old, the earliest record among the four subfamiles) &quot;could represent an ancestral form for the African burrowing rodents.&quot;
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<emphasis id="8038841F268DBDDC4652C9E4ABA1B562" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Nakalimys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was first described from the late Miocene of
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and placed in
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(
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), and
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<emphasis id="E6CE21100C66786B003EDB26929B92F2" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Pronakalimys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from middle Miocene deposits in
<collectingCountry id="C4ACF27A13B3AAC8008E2F7079DEEA22" name="Kenya">Kenya</collectingCountry>
is regarded &quot;as the most primitive known African
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&quot; (
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). The resemblance of Myospalacines to some arvicolines, with their simple occlusal patterns and rootless molars (some extinct species are rooted) impressed
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Hinton (1926
<emphasis id="62C6C4FA421C9CEB14B08E3F7295BB26" italics="true" pageNumber="907">a</emphasis>
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, but he also noted that the head skeleton and jaw musculature were definitely unlike arvicolines.
<bibRefCitation id="AC0C0485EC04DEC3D0CD618B01A2AE14" author="Lawrence, M. A." refId="ref207283" refString="Lawrence, M. A. 1991. A fossil Myospalax cranium (Rodentia: Muridae) from Shanxi, China, with observations on Zokor relationships. Pp. 261 - 286, in Contributions to mammalogy in honor of Karl F. Koopman (T. A. Griffiths and D. Klingener, eds.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 206: 1 - 432." year="1991">Lawrence (1991:282)</bibRefCitation>
reinforced his observation, remarking that the &quot;character complex myospalacines share with arvicolines is a set of parallel adaptations for propalinal chewing of tough, fibrous plant material,&quot; and listing those parallel features as well as synapomorphic traits distinctive to myospalacines and indicative of great phylogenetic distance from arvicolines. Although the molars have different coronal outlines, occlusal patterns in myospalacines are basically similar to those in spalacines and also could have been derived from a form similar to
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<emphasis id="185C954F6FC29C7A3FB25478408DD286" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Debruijnia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. In turn, the dentition of the Turkish, African, and some Asian Miocene forms recalls occlusal patterns common to
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<emphasis id="11330C64DCB908F519FA8D2C3AE4ECB9" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Eucricetodon</emphasis>
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(our observations;
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, suggested that rhizomyines are closely linked to eucricetodontines), which is known from the late Eocene to early Miocene in Asia, Oligocene in Mediterranean region, and early Oligocene to early Miocene in Europe (
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;
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wondered if a hypothetical Oligocene ancestor could be unambiguously distinguished from an ancient &quot;cricetid.&quot;
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2ECB39430832AB9C08D408EB35718515" pageNumber="907">
A return to Tullberg’s (1899) interpretation of phylogenetic affinities among
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<emphasis id="5130A6AE2633749CCD33DB9C6A5A2518" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Myospalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="C541ED80B97C096AB4BE7DAFCE59A59F" class="Mammalia" family="Spalacidae" genus="Spalax" kingdom="Animalia" order="Rodentia" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B4BBC8CADD3609E0CFCBA9BA8BF82CE4" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Spalax</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="51FC941442D050F2547253E35A45DB1C" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Rhizomys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
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<emphasis id="9B10CB95BFF44CDB133943510C9342BD" italics="true" pageNumber="907">Tachyoryctes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is the hypothesis best supported by the accumulation of recent morphological and molecular information. This arrangement should be tested by further cladistic analyses of multi-morphological systems and a wider array of genes
</paragraph>
.
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